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Archives for 2014

Better not get trapped in the popular addiction to “difficulties” .

Some things are indeed difficult.

But the accepted ideas of “things that are difficult”, prevents them ever being easy, if you would let them.

When a situation demands extraordinary action, because of great urgency, many people will summon hidden, indeed “impossible” strengths.

But it’s not “difficult”.

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What you can describe in ten words or less, has clarity.

Ten words can have great power.

Ten is not the only magic number – adjust that to suit the purpose.

Short sentences are convincing!

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There may be someone else who does it better. Just maybe!

But it doesn’t matter.

A Toyota mechanic services his range of cars better than a Rolls Royce trained mechanic might be able to.

If you do something you want to do. You can do it well.

Comparisons are irelevant.

Enjoy the doing!

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Nobody expects the Spanish Inquisition, said Monty Python.

What do you expect?

What do you not expect?

It’s all right, relax.

But do think of and keep an open mind about new ways of seeing things.

You will be a nimbler and swifter solver of any problem that you might come across.

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Multi-coloured pens are invaluable when sketching out strategy on paper.

A map can help even if you have GPS, to give an overview of the travel task ahead.

One day, one low-cost machine, available at the average doctor’s office, will scan, photograph and assess every possible body function. The MRI, CatScan, X-ray, Ultrasound and more we don’t have yet, will all be combined in one machine.

We are moving forward!

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